Thousand Candles
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Might you be mine
if I had more eyes than lips
or will that soft symphony escape
like it did one day,
a long time ago?
Told you about forever
and the stars that
were our lasting legacy.
I wanted to fly us away,
break the bonds of this
shattered place.
You chose to leave
and now I'm at the border
where the sun and the sky meet.
God bless my steely soul
for the hurt you radiated
burnt me like a thousand candles
lit up in the Venusian sky.
Might you be mine again
the stars will be our destiny
once more.
For their light is a beacon
and it shines true
true like the fiery passion
which you could never cool.
And like a burnished statue
whose surface bears his legacy
of the lightbulbs of galaxies
I stand alone,
gratified and blessed.
The heat hath made me
tough, serenely tranceful
like a bodhisattva who
looks like a sage
and has seen forever. -
Originally posted by LazerLordz:
Might you be mine
if I had more eyes than lips
or will that soft symphony escape
like it did one day,
a long time ago?
First sentence, 'Might you be mine', okay, straightforward enough, the author is alone. But the next sentence 'if I had more eyes than lips', that I do not understand. We have two eyes and two lips (upper and lower), so why should the author want more than two eyes?
Maybe he is suggesting that he had said something wrong to his love? Hmm...
Told you about forever
and the stars that
were our lasting legacy.
I wanted to fly us away,
break the bonds of this
shattered place.
My first impression is suicide. But let's read on...
You chose to leave
and now I'm at the border
where the sun and the sky meet.
God bless my steely soul
for the hurt you radiated
burnt me like a thousand candles
lit up in the Venusian sky.
'You chose to leave', I am very tempted to think of suicide again but it may not necessary be the case. Now the next two sentences are very interesting
'and now I'm at the border
where the sun and the sky meet.'
Where exactly is this place, 'the border where the sun and the sky meet'? At the Gate of Heaven?
Am I right in saying that 'thousand candles' = stars? If that is the case, the author is really going through a hard time, for the pains will be eternal.
Might you be mine again
the stars will be our destiny
once more.
For their light is a beacon
and it shines true
true like the fiery passion
which you could never cool.
The word 'fiery', does it suggests warmth/comfort/guidance but also pain (burn)?
And like a burnished statue
whose surface bears his legacy
of the lightbulbs of galaxies
I stand alone,
gratified and blessed.
The heat hath made me
tough, serenely tranceful
like a bodhisattva who
looks like a sage
and has seen forever.
In most eastern religions, fire cleansing the body and the soul thus I think this is the function of the 'fiery passion' in the previous stanza. In this stanza 'lightbulbs of galaxies', is the author referring to the stars in heaven again?
My conclusion is after going through this relationship, the author has become more mature i.e.
'The heat hath made me
tough, serenely tranceful
like a bodhisattva who
looks like a sage
and has seen forever.'
Growth in term of physically, emotionally and spiritually. But the author might also be already dead
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